![]() ![]() The man tore my heart to shreds with Fault in Our Stars, and sent me on a real detective adventure looking for Margo. Some books transcend genre and readership categorization, and Looking for Alaska, I believe is one of them. Looking for Alaska is a young adult novel, a genre that I try to avoid since the moment I saw the sacrilegious mentions of Harry Potter in reading lists recommending teenage angst. One of the great mysteries of life is why Paper Towns movie happened before Looking for Alaska, because John Green’s Looking for Alaska is an emotional hurricane-of-a-novel.One that claws at your heart and makes it bleed… She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. “We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”īefore. Miles “Pudge” Halter’s whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the “Great Perhaps” (François Rabelais, poet) even more. ![]()
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